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Question merging happens all the time. You usually don't see it because you're not a party to the posts getting mixed into the pool together or the question is out sight and out of mind. Duplicates a …

There are two reasons why such comments appear: They voted to close as a duplicate - The system will then automatically add a comment on their behalf pointing out what other question they consider t …

This should be found out by clicking on the faq tab of each tag you're interested in. On something like Firefox you'll see that the tab lists all the questions which have been linked to the most. Th …

The problem is with the users. Both high-rep and newcomers. There's a difference betweeen not knowing how to search, and not wanting to search at all. And then you have those with close level rep a …

Yes. And if you do see other such cases, but you don't have the reputation (10k) to vote to delete, feel free to flag for moderator attention and point out the sinkhole happening.

If it exists on both sites it should be worded to fit the different audiences. If they're not, one should be surrendered, migrated and merged with the other. If you do find the answer exists better o …

That's deliberate. Links that are added in to point to canonical questions do not automatically get removed if they themselves are deleted. If it was not closed as a duplicate it would have been clos …

For the record, here is the list of those mentioned sorted by the order of votes. Also included, the number of questions tagged about the AV program. It reads like this: antivirus program - quest …

Most close voters do read the questions. Mods do. It helps to try and describe the problem with words and not rely just on images which may be misleading or incomplete in delivery. In "Turn on the …